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We note with relish the latest Big Read from the Financial Times, entitled The Big Green Bang: How Renewables Became Unstoppable. It’s a pleasure to read, in a paper that routinely covers energy to include just fossil fuels and until now… Read More ›

Renewables have hit many milestones over the last few years – record installation levels, record investment, more new renewable capacity installed last year than all fossil fuels combined. But this one’s a big one: the latest issue of the International… Read More ›

Regular readers will already be aware that the VAM – Accessible Green Energy Fund is located in Luxembourg. Apart from being a financial centre, particularly adept at fund management and hosting, Luxembourg listed the first Green Bond in 2007 in… Read More ›

South African Airways announced this week that one of its planes has completed its first flight using jet fuel made from the crushed seeds of a tobacco plant. ESI Africa Power magazine reported that the airline used 6,300 litres of bio jet… Read More ›

In a speech last week, Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, emphasised yet again: climate change is an economic problem. “What is your strategy for managing climate-related risk?” he said. “Longer-term strategies are going to be much more… Read More ›

Portugal just took a huge step forward in the renewable energy arena. The country ran on solar, wind and hydropower energy for 107-hours straight from 6:45 a.m. May 7 to 5:45 p.m. May 11, The Guardian reported. This was a… Read More ›

The , the world’s largest health charity, has divested its $187 million stake in oil giant BP as part of the growing global fossil fuel divestment movement. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (pictured) and his wife Melinda set up the Foundation… Read More ›

PV can only convert a small portion of the energy spectrum of sunlight to electricity. But physicists have discovered radical new properties in a nanomaterial, opening new possibilities for highly efficient thermophotovoltaic cells that could harvest heat in the dark… Read More ›

Despite their hefty price tag, smartphones have an average consumer lifetime of about three years. The lithium ion batteries that power them, however, can last for about five years—meaning that just about every discarded smartphone generates e-waste and squanders the… Read More ›